Gerrymander

jer-i-man′der, v.t. ( Amer. ) to rearrange the voting districts in the interests of a particular party or candidate: to manipulate facts, arguments, . so as to reach undue conclusions.— n. an arrangement of the above nature. [Formed from the name of Governor Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814) and Salamander , from the likene to that animal of the gerrymandered map of Ma achusetts in 1811.]